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Alfred Nobel - 702 words
Alfred Nobel Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm on
October 21, 1833. By the age of 17 he was fluent
in Swedish, Russian, French, English and German.
Early in his life he had a huge interest in
English literature and poetry as well as in
chemistry and physics. Alfred's father disliked
his interest in poetry and found his son rather
introverted. In order to widen Alfred's horizons
his father sent him to different institutions for
further training in chemical engineering. During a
two-year period he visited Sweden, Germany, France
and the United States. He came to enjoy Paris the
best. There he worked in the private laboratory of
Professor T. J. Pelouze, a famous chemist. He also
met the young ...
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Alfred Nobel His Prizes - 1,205 words
Alfred Nobel & His Prizes In addressing hope,
Alfred Nobel referred to it as nature's veil for
hiding truth's nakedness2. Such a statement
encompasses the struggle associated with Nobels
lifework. Alfred Nobels existence spanned many
realms of thought and being. He was a scientist, a
writer, a philosopher and humanitarian, and
ultimately a philanthropist. It was probably this
myriad of influences and inspirations that
injected him into the core of friction between
science and society, between knowledge and
application. This work will elucidate Nobels
motivation for creating the Nobel Prize with the
assertion that the prize is an instrument used to
reconcile the incongruity between science an ...
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Alfred Nobel His Prizes - 1,163 words
... need for cutting labor costs. At this point
Alfred and his father were tragically reminded of
the peril of nitroglycerine due to the Heleneborg
disaster in which Emil was killed as well as some
others.4 After this point both Alfred and Immanuel
were emotionally traumatized. Soon after Emils
death Alfred focused on the manufacturing methods
of nitroglycerine and eventually created
conditions in which it was rendered harmless. In
speaking of Alfred Nobels response to the death of
his brother Evlanoff states: He blamed himself
with bitterness He mourned that he had not been
able to accomplish this sooner, so Emil need not
have died. He could never forget the dreadful day
of the Heleneborg ...
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Alzheimer's: Is There A Cure - 999 words
Alzheimer'S: Is There A Cure? Alzheimer's: Is
there a cure? In February of 2000, I lost my
grandmother to Alzheimer's disease. She was
diagnosed with the disease just less than two
years prior to her death. Throughout that time, I
watched changes in my grandmother that made her
seem like an entirely different woman to me. She
gradually began losing her short-term memory and
we began to see signs of her long-term memory
degrading too. It began to get harder and harder
to take her out into public without being afraid
of what would happen next. Her emotions would
fluctuate with the changing of each minute it
seemed. Physically she became weaker and weaker
and would often scare us with falling w ...
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Anesthetics - 1,530 words
Anesthetics Anesthesia is a partial or complete
loss of sensation or feeling induced by the
administration of various substances. For many
decade, people have used one form of an anesthetic
during surgical procedures. Some people also use
some of these anesthetics as recreational drugs,
e.g. laughing gas (a.k.a. Nitrous Oxide). The term
anesthetic literally means "without feeling".
There are many different types of anesthesia, but
they are usually put into three groups. These
groups are gene- ral anesthetics, local
anesthetics, and spinal anesthetics. A general
anesthetic causes a complete loss of
consciousness. They are used when having a serious
operation or in the case of an emergency ope ...
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Antigone Was Right - 1,045 words
Antigone was Right The story of Antigone deals
with Antigones brother whos body has been left
unburied because of crimes against the state. The
sight of her brother being unburied drives
Antigone to take action against the state and bury
her brother regardless of the consequences. The
concept of the Greek afterlife was far more
important and sacred than living life itself.
Everything they did while they were alive was to
please the many gods they worshipped. They built
temples for their Gods, made statues to symbolize
their Gods, and had a different God to explain
things that we now say are an act of mother
nature. Antigone percieved her actions to be
courageous and valid, and Kreone, the Ki ...
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Carl Sandburg - 1,717 words
Carl Sandburg As a child of an immigrant couple,
Carl Sandburg was barely American himself, yet the
life, which he had lived, has defined key aspects
of our great country, and touched the hearts and
minds of her people. Sandburg grew up in the
American Midwest, yet spent the majority of his
life traveling throughout the states. The country,
which would define his style of poetry and his
views of society, government, and culture, would
equally be defined by his writing, lecturing, and
the American dream he lived: The dream of becoming
successful with only an idea and the will to use
it. Historically, Sandburg's most defining poetic
element is his free verse style. His open views
towards Ameri ...
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Demian - 845 words
Demian Herman Hesses novel Demian tells of a young
boy named Emil Sinclair and his childhood growing
up during pre-World War I. Emil struggles to find
his new self-knowledge in the immoral world and is
caught between good and evil, which is represented
as the light and dark realms. Hesse uses much
symbolic diction in his novel to give a more
puissant presentation of Emil Sinclair and the
conflict between right and wrong. The symbolism
gives direction, foreshadow, and significance
towards every aspect of the novel. Emil Sinclairs
home as a young child is a very important symbol
in the novel. As Emil attends school he is shown a
world immoral value. The confusion of which is
right or wrong cre ...
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Earthquakes - 2,685 words
... education and preparedness plans can help
significantly reduce death and injury caused by
earthquakes. People can take several preventative
measures within their homes and at the office to
reduce risk. Supports and bracing for shelves
reduce the likelihood of items falling and
potentially causing harm. Maintaining an
earthquake survival kit in the home and at the
office is also an important part of being
prepared. (On shifting ground p.97) In the home,
earthquake preparedness includes maintaining an
earthquake kit and making sure that the house is
structurally stable. The local chapter of the
American Red Cross is a good source of information
for how to assemble an earthquake kit. During ...
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In Willa Cathers Novel O Pioneers We Discover The Everpresent Theory Of Survival Of The - 616 words
In Willa Cathers novel O Pioneers we discover the
ever-present theory of survival of the fittest.
This story shows the brutal facts of life and that
only the strong, may it be in will or man power,
will strive forth and survive. This is a story of
the strong in will. It is set in the open plains
on the Nebraska prairie, with wild winters and
beautiful springtime. It is the tale of a pioneer
family, the Bergsons, and their fight for
survival. Alexandra, the eldest child is left to
run the farm when her father dies. Alexandra and
her family suffer many hardships and soon have to
make the biggest decision of their lives, whether
to stay on the Great Divide and attempt to fulfill
their fathers w ...
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Joseph John Thomson Was Born On December 18, 1856 Near Manchester, England His Father Died When - 1,361 words
Joseph John Thomson was born on December 18, 1856
near Manchester, England. His father died when
J.J.. was only sixteen. The young Thomson attended
Owens College in Manchester, where his professor
of mathematics encouraged him to apply for a
scholarship at Trinity College, one of the most
prestigious of the colleges at Cambridge
University. Thomson won the scholarship, and in
1880 finished second in his class in the grueling
graduation examination in mathematics. Trinity
gave him a fellowship and he stayed on there,
trying to craft mathematical models that would
reveal the nature of atoms and electromagnetic
forces. One hundred years ago, amidst glowing
glass tubes and the hum of electricity ...
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Last Luagh - 1,844 words
Last Luagh About The Director: Friedrich Wilhelm
Murnau is one of the most important filmmakers of
the cinema during Weimar Republic period. He is
often grouped with Fritz Lang and G.W. Pabst as
the big three directors of Weimar Germany. He
finished his career in Hollywood and was killed at
a young age in a car crash. Three of his films
appear on the greatest films lists of critics and
film groups. Even though there seems to be little
written about him. Early in his career he created
one of horror film, Nosferatu (1922); his last
film was Tabu (1931), a documentary film in the
South Seas. He was one of the pioneers in the
technical side of the film industry, experimenting
special effects in ...
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Modernism - 2,351 words
... A scandalized contemporary critic declared
Matisse and his fellow artistsAndr Derain, Maurice
de Vlaminck, and Georges Braque (of France), and
Kees van Dongen (of the Netherlands)to be fauves
(French for wild beasts). This derogatory term
became the name of their movement. Fauvism lasted
only from about 1898 to 1908, but it had an
enduring impact on 20th-century art. [ ] B. Cubism
[ ] Print section [ ] Pablo Picasso, a friend and
rival of Matisse, also invented a new style of
painting, focusing mainly on line rather than
color. Picasso's art changed radically around
1907, when he decided to incorporate some
stylistic elements of African sculpture into his
paintings. Unlike Matisse's plea ...
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Nazi Art - 1,056 words
Nazi Art Many people know that Adolph Hitler was
an artist in his youth as an Austrian, but just
how much art played a role in the National
Socialist Germany seems to get underrated in the
history books. Just as a racial war was waged
against the Jewish population and the military
fought the French and the Slavic people, an
artistic cleansing for the Germanic culture was in
progress. Special Nazi units were searching the
ancient arts of antiquity for evidence of a great
Germanic race that existed well before history.
Hitler had monuments and museums built on a grand
scale with carefully designed architecture that
would last a thousand years. Art of this nature
was a priority because Hitler w ...
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O Pioneers - 817 words
O Pioneers! O Pioneers! After reading the novel, O
Pioneers!, it was hard to judge whether it was a
tragedy or a triumph. I think the answer you are
looking for would be a triumph. The only way I see
it as a tragedy is that Emil and Maria died. I
knew, since page six of the book, that they were
destined to be together. It kind of broke my heart
to see later on that she had married someone else.
But when her and Emil got shot, I thought it may
finish as a tragedy. But overall, I would see it
as a triumph in the way that the Bergson's finally
got what they wanted out of their land. It made
them rich. Also, Alexandra and Carl finally
married. And being that the whole novel was
basically based o ...
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Our Town By Thorton Wilder 1897 1975 - 1,758 words
Our Town by Thorton Wilder (1897 - 1975) Our Town
by Thorton Wilder (1897 - 1975) Type of Work:
Presentational life drama Setting Grover's
Corners, New Hampshire; 1901 to 1913 Principal
Characters Stage Ma Beer, the play's all-wise
narrator Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs, an ordinary small-
town physician and housewife George Gibbs, their
son Mr. and Mrs. Webb, a news editor and his wife
Emily Webb, their daughter Simon Stimson , the
town drunkard and church choir organist A
conglomeration of other ordinary people living out
ordinary lives Story Overveiw Act 1. Daily Life:
The Stage Manager speaks while pointing to
different parts of the stage: "Up here is Main
Street ... Here's the Town Hall and Post O ...
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Richard Wagner Wunderkind Or Monster - 1,889 words
... gner, with blinding clarity, saw as the woman.
Lohengrin remains the German fairytale opera, in
which Wagner used orchestral colors that had never
been heard before. Tannhuser did quite well in
Dresden in 1845 but Wagner's real troubles with
the work began in 1861, at the Paris Opra. During
the second performance members of the local Jockey
Club, who used to arrive late at the opera house,
started a riot because they had missed the
splendors of the ballet at the beginning of the
first act; they were joined by a large group who
were opposed to Wagner. After the third
performance, he withdrew the work. Lohengrin too
had mixed reception. Wagner wrote it backwards
starting with the third act ...
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Rose For Emily - 1,400 words
Rose For Emily William Faulkner's "A Rose for
Emily" is the story of a woman's reluctance
towards change. The story encompasses the entire
town's unwillingness to change, while focusing on
the protagonist, Emily Grierson. Faulkner uses
symbols throughout the story to cloak an almost
allegorical correlation to the reconstruction
period of the South. Even though these symbols are
open to interpretation, they are the heart and
soul of the story. While the literal meaning of
Faulkner's story implies many different
conclusions, it is primarily the psychological and
symbolic aspects which give the story meaning.
Exploring these aspects will shed light on
Faulkner's intention of "A Rose for Emily." ...
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The Art Of Influence - 1,035 words
... , this composition is done in the celebrated
cubist structure. Picasso's portrait of Gertrude
Stein includes mask like treatment of her face,
which was influenced by African artists. Other
Picasso paintings indicating African influence
include, Seated Nude done in 1907, Nude Figure of
1910, and Man with Mandolin completed in 1911.
Head of a Woman, done in 1909, as well as Mandolin
and Clarinet, 1913 illustrates Pablo Picasso's
interest in the sculptural form of African
sculptures. Picasso was not the only European
artist to find inspiration from ethnic art.
Another artist, whose work exemplifies African
influence, is Paul Gauguin. After being drawn into
Impressionism, Gauguin realized th ...
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The Island By Gary Paulsen - 415 words
The Island by Gary Paulsen The book I read was The
Island by Gary Paulsen. It is about a 15 year old
boy named Wil Neuton who moves with his family to
northern Wisconsin. There he finds an island on
Sucker Lake where he stays to learn about himself.
Wil likes riding his bike early in the morning. He
also likes watching nature. He is very tall for
his age-6 feet 2-but well-built and strong. He is
honest,cares about others and prefers to talk
things through than resort to violence. The title
is good because the book is very much about the
island and about Wil finding himself on this
island. The island also becomes a very prominent
point in Wil's life. By comparison and
observation, he learns t ...
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